Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-11-06

Wncn DOSE t"eeu was IN power tho
northern part OF the city was wonder.
fully improved by the construction at
enormous expense Of magnificent ave-
nues and parks For years these grand
thoroughfsres were abutted solely by
50 -.atters' cabins, for spectators fondl7
believed that land would sell At MANY
times it's value. At that time the Jersey
land that now waits in vain for pur-
chasers at $1,000 an acre was held at
5000. 1t is probable that the people
who went in at the top prices at Tweed S
era are the same who are now stubbt rnly
hoping TO get back fifth of their in
vestment minus the pocketful of in
terest.
soMB QUEER SPECULATIVE DEALS.
Curiously enough, the only exchange
where there is any real speculative Juror
Just now is the Metal Exchange in the
tOmb-hke old Seventh Ward Bank build
ing, at Pearl street and Burling slip.
Stocks are dull because the cowardlv
bulls have become demoralizcd bv the
raids Of such flying Cossscks as Addison
Cammack, Arthur f. Bateman, Harvey
Durand, and others, TO whom Jay Gould,
anxious to humble the Atchison. Topeka
ane Santa Fe, as well as for other rea-
sons, has given Mephistophclean wink.
/ Gould has thmblergged Manhattan,
knitted Henry Hart, picked Carrots
! pocket Of the Baltimore and Ohio Tele-
/ graph, and now he wants to bully
/ the Atchison out OF his southwestern
] falI HTC NAV ftn Hvartf.faN ,.l
board for months past has all been toward
the depression OF railroad property in
order to promote his own particular
schemes by the shaking out Of powerful
opponents whom he has swallowed with
the nav Of crocodile. Speculation Is
SO lifeless at the Stock Exchange that
many brokers are not making enough TO
pay Office rents. At the Produce J x-
change there is no speculative lilc
Bulls on wheat have received such severe
punishment within the last three years
that they hardly dare to say their souls ,re
their own. \. 3. Ream is sad 20 be bull
on wheat, but he does nothing 20 prove
1t and he and the other members Of the
notorious Chicago vrcckcrs known as
the Big -Four are largely responsible
through their persistent selling of what
they did not possess for the disastrous
decline in the value of q oCet staple
within the last few years. Edward Cot
trel processes TO be bull on wheat fora
long pull, but the speculation is 50 slug
gsh that he finds il advisable TO make
turns on the short side. Charles Roue
the morose knight Of Speculation from
Baltimore, IS bear ON wheat. Nat
Jones is said to have made q quick tum
on the bull side in wheat with Addison
Cammack for company, and Is now busy
trying ia dcpresS the value OF railroad
property IN the Northwest There J., no
one to take an aggressive stand OF either
wheat OF corn. Hutchinson loaded up
to the gmvalcs with com a few mon
ago on the strength Of the drought 1T the
West, bat IS now trying TO re somebody
to hold the beg until he has Sized d. and
got out. At the Cotton Exchange II Is
considered too early 20 bull tlc market,
notwithstanding the large exports and
the enormous consumption here ard
abroad, and such hol os Lehman
Brothers, iuman, Swan d Co.. Horny
Hentz A. Co., end Fielding GryHae
are ON the bear side. Commodore oo.-
ward thunders ban point, THROUGH DIS
trumpet a, commander OF the .e.'a-
yacht Wan In, alI Gc'.i 'I.'..rs. l.a
Greeks, with ruliic.u0s tWor hoIt
the world and q capital of s ..c.
are bulls, bat the out il public AS
cotton alone. AID there Us nothing %